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Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 2 days ago • 542 comments

Read it and weep on.ft.com/3FGos7B

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

Hey BBC, I've got a great idea for a show if you want to appeal more to Reform voters…

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

If I were able to deliver a message to either of these guys, my message would be this: "You're going to let that other guy treat you like this? Make a public fool of you? After all you did for him? I thought you were a big shot. Act like a man!" That's should settle things down.

submitted 14 days ago • 50 comments

oh my god it's literally alien vs. predator

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

Even if "white British" will be a minority in the UK in 40 years - so what? Seriously, so what? What is so terrible about that? Make people spell out their horrors. Make them spell out the things they are supposedly not allowed to say. Make them own it.

submitted 15 days ago • 238 comments

PHOTO | "Free Palestine" (PSG Ultras)

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

It’s mind-boggling. It shouldn’t be that hard to comprehend most Lab supporters want a positive story told on immigration, a two state solution in Gaza, a return to the EU & protections for the most vulnerable ring-fenced. We know the UK’s f**ked. We didn’t realise the Tories were just foreplay.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

also applies to George Osborne

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Amazing how Kneecap was banned from a festival for opposing genocide, but Israel was allowed into Eurovision to promote genocide. What a dreadful time we live in.

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I wrote for the Guardian’s Saturday magazine about my son Max, who changed how I see the world. Took ages. More jokes after the first bit. Thanks Merope Mills for being the most patient and generous editor. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 26 days ago • 130 comments

It’s publication day for my eighth novel, The Woman Who Met Herself. Still pinching myself. If you fancy a read (or a listen), here’s the link: mybook.to/WomanWhoMetH...

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

submitted 28 days ago • 30 comments

Next time Trump is visiting a foreign leader, they should hold a press conference to show pictures of US school shootings.

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Hope everybody who voted for Israel has left the telly on to watch the news.

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

Bob Pope?

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Netanyahu is making a highly explicit call for genocide here, not for the first time. There's absolutely no possible defence or "whataboutery" which can be used a justify a genocide against a civilian population. The world should be condemning this, and standing against it.

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

My latest novel, #TheManyFuturesofMaddyHart, is currently 99p on Kindle (or free if you have Amazon Prime). Just saying.

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Tremendous opportunity for Britain here. Let's see if we can swap our riot-inciters for their cancer researchers.

submitted 52 days ago • 25 comments

First copy in my hands. #TheWomanWhoMetHerself, coming on 23 May.

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments

We collectively emboldened a mediocre childrens author into thinking she's a genius and now these are the consequences. A billionaire with no worthwhile insight whose malign influence knows no bounds. (Trans women are, obviously, women)

submitted 64 days ago • 5 comments

Absolute solidarity with trans and non-binary individuals today. This is another blow to being recognised and accepted. It does nothing to protect anyone, but it does make lives harder and rights at more risk, for trans and non-binary individuals, yet again. www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...

submitted 64 days ago • 5 comments

This chart was made in America by skilled artisans. It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation.

submitted 70 days ago • 42 comments

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

submitted 71 days ago • 146 comments

I’ve often felt that working on the stock exchange consisted largely of hiding the fact you & everyone else have no idea what they’re doing. The fact millions of dollars were added then wiped off the value of companies today based on one unverified tweet doesn’t convince me otherwise.

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

When history of 2025 is written, the early & easy compliance a lot of institutions & people who claim to represent humanities (incl. some museum administrators, people at federal-adjacent-but-not-quite orgs, & of course univs) will loom large. Those who show different choices are possible are why.

submitted 74 days ago • 6 comments

Surprised it took this long to be honest. Abject shit.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

We should stop using, "he has a point" when we actually mean, "somewhere in that incoherent ramble full of insane demands and wild allegations was something that could be a legitimate grievance if expressed completely differently by a mature and emotionally stable adult."

submitted 77 days ago • 42 comments

If you're an Amazon Prime customer, you can now read my latest book #TheManyFuturesofMaddyHart for free: mybook.to/ManyFutures

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

As a percentage of GDP, benefits are chickenfeed. Therefore, welfare cuts are purely performative. Trying to impress the most vile people in Britain by throwing the most vulnerable under the bus. That isn’t what the Labour Party should be about. This shouldn’t need stating, but here we are.

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

I’m running the London Marathon this year to raise money for Bliss. My daughter spent 2 weeks in neonatal intensive care when she was born, and Bliss helped us immensely at that difficult time. Any donations would be much appreciated. www.justgiving.com/page/paul-he...

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Southampton aren’t having the best of seasons so we thought we’d try to cheer them up with some new drawings. Unfortunately it’s not gone well. Ali Dia is right to look worried. 24 wonky Saints icons across a pair of mugs. We’re very sorry. Please buy them. Ta. 🛒 noscoredraws.com/products/sou...

submitted 97 days ago • 4 comments

41 years ago today: Danny Wallace, The Dell, and a Scissorbastard for the ages. To the soundtrack of the poetic prose of Barry Davies.

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

Haven't drawn any Southampton legends since before the pandemic. Makes you think...🤔 So here goes with a thread of 36 wonky Saints doodles. Suggestions welcome! (and please do tell the Southampton fans in your life, we're still trying to rebuild our wee following here in the post-Twitter world) x

submitted 97 days ago • 29 comments

Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

submitted 101 days ago • 3605 comments

'Did you even say thank you?'

submitted 110 days ago • 224 comments

Jeez, guys. This is bad. We should arrange some sort of Union of Europeans, or something.

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Going to watch Threads tonight to lighten my mood.

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It's impressive yet unbearably upsetting to watch Zelenskyy hold himself up under extreme pressure against vile bullying and deliberate belittling. All in front of the world's media as he had to translate these exchanges internally before replying clearly in a second language, and staying calm.

submitted 111 days ago • 14 comments

The only winner in any of this is Vladimir Putin and that is a devastating reality

submitted 111 days ago • 7 comments

If I had “accidentally” cancelled Ebola prevention, I would likely die of shame on the spot. Why isn’t an admission that they are accidentally cancelling vital things enough to persuade everyone they should not be taking decisions at all?

submitted 113 days ago • 13 comments

The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.

submitted 113 days ago • 76 comments

Well that was that was shit.

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Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

submitted 117 days ago • 30 comments